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The installation will be open to the public inside the castle daily until 20 November. Morning and afternoon advance tickets are available for free online via Cadw’s Eventbrite , while an extra 1,000 people will be granted access on the door each day.

Caernarfon Castle is home to the Museum of the Royal Welch Fusiliers regiment, who fought throughout the First World War, including at the Battle of the Somme. A number of notable writers, including the poets David Jones, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves and Hedd Wyn, served with the regiment during the First World War.

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The Welsh Government’s historic environment service, Cadw, organised a successful bid to host the monumental artwork at Caernarfon Castle in partnership with the Welsh Centre for International Affairs ‘Wales for Peace’ project.

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Artist Paul Cummins and designer Tom Piper preview the finished installation before it opens to the public (Image: Richard Stonehouse/Getty Images)

(Image: Richard Stonehouse/Getty Images)

The presentation will be accompanied by a special exhibition Remembrance for Peace. The exhibition will feature Wales’ iconic First World War Book of Remembrance - on loan from Cardiff’s Temple of Peace to the Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum – marking the lead up to Remembrance Day on 11 November, as well as the centenary of the end of the Battle of the Somme on 18 November. A ‘Peace Heritage Trail’ will take visitors around Caernarfon.

The poppies in place at the Tower of London (Image: Philip Coburn)

The poppies in the art installation at the Tower of London (Image: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire)

(Image: Philip Coburn)

Nigel Hinds, executive producer at 14-18 NOW, said: “Caernarfon Castle is a poignant and fitting place for the poppy sculpture Weeping Window to be presented as part of its tour of the UK. It is particularly fitting that the poppies will be at the castle over the centenary of the last weeks of the Battle of the Somme, in which the Royal Welch Fusiliers played such an important role.”

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Weeping Window is one of two sculptures taken from the installation Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red. The installation was originally at the Tower of London from August to November 2014 where 888,246 poppies were displayed, one to honour every death in the British and colonial forces of the First World War. Weeping Window is the cascade of poppies that was seen pouring out of a high window down to the grass below. The second sculpture, Wave, is also touring the UK.